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A consciousness of helplessness prevails successful Kashmir successful the existent governmental script and Delhi is not bothered astir what was happening there, according to A.S. Dulat, erstwhile main of the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW), the country’s outer quality agency.
“Kashmir is astatine a standstill, determination is simply a presumption quo now. The Kashmiris unrecorded connected anticipation much than thing other and determination is simply a consciousness of helplessness,” helium said, recalling a caller connection issued the Mirwaiz, the spiritual person of Kashmiris.
Mr. Dulat was responding to a question from Shobhana K. Nair, Senior Deputy Editor, The Hindu, connected the improvement of the narration betwixt the Abdullahs, the starring governmental household of Kashmir, and the antithetic BJP governments astatine the Centre, during a league connected ‘The Kashmir Connection’ at The Hindu Lit for Life successful Chennai connected Sunday (January 18, 2026).
The quality betwixt Vajpayee’s BJP and Modi’s BJP
Elaborating, helium observed that determination were 2 chiseled BJPs, 1 nether Atal Bihari Vajpayee and different nether Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and that determination was a satellite of quality successful the mode each treated Kashmir.
The past premier curate Vajpayee, helium maintained, was much progressive and wanted immoderate signifier of solution successful Kashmir portion the existent authorities did not fuss much. “So, determination is simply a satellite of quality and I don’t deliberation anybody successful Delhi is bothered astir thing happening successful Kashmir now. It is simply a bittersweet communicative and we should hold and spot what happens,” said Mr. Dulat, the writer of the publication The Chief Minister and the Spy: An Unlikely Friendship based connected his relation with Dr. Farooq Abdullah during his stint successful Kashmir arsenic an quality officer.
Article 370: a hollow provision
On the abrogation of Article 370, Mr. Dulat maintained that it was inevitable arsenic it was a hollow provision, a fig leaf. “Why would you deprive the Kashmiris of the fig leafage I don’t understand,” helium wondered. But the eruption of wide protests that was expected aft the abrogation didn’t hap due to the fact that Kashmiris went mostly silent. “This soundlessness is scary due to the fact that if radical spell silent, you bash not cognize what is going to happen.”
The different Kashmiri transportation successful the league was the biography of Brigadier Mohammed Usman titled The Lion of Naushera authored jointly by Ziya Us Salaam and Anand Mishra. After Partition, Muslim officers successful the Indian Army were not promised immoderate promotions but Brig. Usman chose to enactment backmost successful the Indian Army. He sacrificed his beingness for the state of his prime [during the 1948 Indo-Pak War] and proved that patriotism transcends the confines of religion, Mr. Ziya said during the conversation.
Brigadier Usman showed patriotism transcends religion
Responding to a question connected wherefore this communicative wasn’t adopted to the metallic screen, Mr. Ziya said, “The reply is simple: we don’t marque patriotic movies, we marque jingoistic movies. We marque movies to divide, to merchantability hatred successful the garb of chivalry.” The reality, helium said, was that Brigadier Usman could not beryllium sold arsenic a patriotic leader to a ample conception of Indian society, which was ever waiting for the adjacent Dhurandhar.
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